[SPARCbook] Netbooting Solaris 2.6 from a non-solaris server?

Michael Lorenz sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 25 08:11:23 CST 2001


24.01.01 05:24:55, Michael M Delaney <mmdst23+ at pitt.edu> wrote:

>Hi all,
>I'm trying to get solaris 2.6 installed on my laptop, and (having finally
>given up on the cd drive i have), I'm trying to do a network install.  I
>dont have access to a solaris box (or at least one i could be root on) so 
>I tried running the scripts that the manual's said to use, but it said
>something like "bar: command not found"  Anyone know what this error
>means, or how to get an install server set up correctly?

NetBSD has anything you need to boot a Sun ( and therefore Solaris ) via network, the setup is basically the same as under Solaris.

hope that helps
Michael




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